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Psychologists Are Learning How to Convince Conservatives to Take Climate Change Seriously
NY Magazine ^ | 1 October 2014 | Jesse Singal

Posted on 10/01/2014 2:54:52 PM PDT by oblomov

Last week’s People's Climate March drew 400,000 people onto the streets of Manhattan and a great deal of international attention to a subject of dire urgency. But some were skeptical about the event’s overall significance. “The march slogan was, ‘to change everything, we need everyone,’ which is telling, because it won’t change everything, because it didn’t include everyone,” wrote David Roberts of Grist. “Specifically, it won’t change American politics because it didn’t include conservatives.” True enough.

If there weren’t such a stark divide between American conservatives and almost everyone else on the question of the existence and importance of climate change — a divide that can approach 40 points on some polling questions — the political situation would be very different. So if any progress on climate change is going to be made through the American political system — apart from executive orders by Democratic presidents — it is going to have to somehow involve convincing a lot of conservatives that yes, climate change is a threat to civilization.

How do you do that? The answer has more to do with psychology than politics.

The practice of tailoring a political message to a particular group is commonplace, of course. But the climate activist community has broadly failed to understand just how differently conservatives and liberals see the world on certain issues, and, as a result, just how radically different messages targeting conservatives should look.

Related Stories How to Win Your Next Political Argument Awareness Is Overrated “Although climate scientists update, appropriately, their models after ten years of evidence, climate-science communicators haven’t,” said Dan Kahan, a professor of law and psychology at Yale who studies how people respond to information challenging their beliefs. Luckily, social and political psychologists are on the case.

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climateliars; globaloney; globalwarming; totalitarianism
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To: oblomov

Political abuse of psychiatry was a systematic process of suppressing dissent in the old Soviet Union, so it’s no surprise that this methodology would be embraced in an obamanation to silence critics of global warming.


41 posted on 10/01/2014 3:25:27 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: oblomov
Psychologists Are Learning How to Convince Conservatives to Take Climate Change Seriously

Frontal lobotomy?

42 posted on 10/01/2014 3:26:51 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: PATRIOT1876

Cant they just appeal to my bigotry, greed, and insensitivity if they want me to believe in global warming?


43 posted on 10/01/2014 3:28:21 PM PDT by woofie
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To: longfellow
"and that fat bastard al goron is the L Ron Hubbard of that religion."

And he's so utterly convinced of the imminent rise in sea levels that he recently bought ocean-front property.

44 posted on 10/01/2014 3:28:59 PM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: outofsalt
They are piling it higher and deeper in the, “schools” and not just regarding, “climate change”.

Thank God it is in the nature of youths to rebel, particularly in America.

Ted Nugent had a saying: "Raise hell. Remember Rosa Parks. Vote smart."

I.E.: "Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone!"

45 posted on 10/01/2014 3:31:00 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: oblomov

B.S. is always B.S regardless of how its framed or spun.

these psychologists can not be very bright


46 posted on 10/01/2014 3:32:01 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: oblomov
Psychologists Are Learning How to Convince Conservatives to Take Climate Change Seriously

Believe or you will no longer be contributing to climate change....


47 posted on 10/01/2014 3:34:43 PM PDT by TheDon (The genocide in Iraq is the legacy of Barack Obama.)
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To: oblomov
Judging from interviews at the so called "People's Climate March," the psychologists need to start with looking in the mirror, then continue with the climate extremists. We can wait until last.

Climate March

48 posted on 10/01/2014 3:34:58 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: oblomov

Next: psychologists investigate how to get little boys to take the Emperor’s new clothes seriously.


49 posted on 10/01/2014 3:36:28 PM PDT by Anima Mundi (Envy is just passive, lazy greed.)
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To: Travis McGee

Global Warming is a fraud used by the left as a power lever like the “War on Women” and affirmative action


50 posted on 10/01/2014 3:38:18 PM PDT by ZULU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qLDFiQcjlY Impeach Obama in 2015 !!!)
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To: alstewartfan
The originator of the procedure, António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses"

Liberalism is too much to Western society what Walter Freeman was to medicine.

51 posted on 10/01/2014 3:39:13 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: oblomov
Psychologists Are Learning How to Convince Conservatives to Take Climate Change Seriously

That ship has passed.

52 posted on 10/01/2014 3:42:33 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Rich21IE

Well, I don’t know about “environazis”, but I’ve discussed the subject with many an otherwise nice enough person who is a believer in AGW (as a primary climate driver). I just direct them to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age#mediaviewer/File:Vostok_Petit_data.svg

and this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age#mediaviewer/File:Five_Myr_Climate_Change.svg

and then ask them if humans were responsible. That usually quiets them.


53 posted on 10/01/2014 3:45:37 PM PDT by Paul R. (Leftists desire to control everything; In the end they invariably control nothing worth a damn.)
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To: JennysCool
5. The public MUST believe in “Global Warming” — and soon — or a whole buncha people are going to lose their shirts, and their shorts, and everything else. And they’re gonna be REAL mad.

(Ecclesiastes 2:26)
To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

54 posted on 10/01/2014 3:45:46 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: oblomov

The TL;DR for that is “We haven’t sold it well enough.” Yeah. Here’s the problem. No sales job is going to do much good when the potential customers think (not entirely without reason) that the product is crap and (with extremely good reason) that even most of the best-known salespeople don’t believe in it.


55 posted on 10/01/2014 3:46:59 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2016: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: outofsalt

It would be a simple matter to enlist conservatives in global warming if it were in fact what its proponents say it is. Problem is it is based on lies, deception, manipulation and phoney science. There is no global warming. That is the problem.


56 posted on 10/01/2014 3:47:40 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Paul R.

I can’t get the graphs to post — maybe they are blocked now?


57 posted on 10/01/2014 3:48:05 PM PDT by Paul R. (Leftists desire to control everything; In the end they invariably control nothing worth a damn.)
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To: oblomov

Why don’t we just pass a law that requires all doubters to go to special re-education camps?


58 posted on 10/01/2014 3:49:38 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: oblomov
Afterwards , respondents were gauged on their pro-environmental attitudes and belief in global warming.

The authors take it on faith that global warming is not at best an artifact or at worst, a confidence-game massive sting.

They abandon the scientific method, which (IIRC from my freshman classes in...science) begin with developing an hypothesis to explain an observation, testing the hypothesis (making all data and methods available), inviting others to reproduce the results, and encouraging contrary questions and investigation.

There has never, ever been "settled" science; and, any true scientist would welcome thorough and impartial studies to see if results are replicated.

(Any true scientist, by-the-way, would be more than curious about the 3.5 million square miles of sea ice growth in Antarctica and other record cold temps; and maybe that the sea level has not changed a whisker. Of course, true scientists would not use computer models, with variables so numerous and assumptions so loaded that reaching a valid conclusion is not verifiable, on which to base an observed effect.)

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59 posted on 10/01/2014 3:49:39 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: MeshugeMikey
B.S. is always B.S regardless of how its framed or spun.

these psychologists can not be very bright

They see how it works on lefties and think it will work on Conservatives. :-)

60 posted on 10/01/2014 3:50:23 PM PDT by Paul R. (Leftists desire to control everything; In the end they invariably control nothing worth a damn.)
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